Wild horses and wild asses, together with saiga antelopes, are to repopulate the golden steppe of Kazakhstan, the Altyn Dala. ITG shares this objective and joins therefore now the Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative (ADCI), in addition to the protection of the wild horses (takhi) in Mongolia. This large-scale, long-term project aims to restore fully functional ecosystems with their original fauna in the grasslands of Kazakhstan, covering an area of around 700,000 km². The ADCI is a joint project co-founded by the Frankfurt Zoological Society (ZGF) and managed by the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK). The last two years, however, the camp for the reintroduction of takhi and wild asses (kulan) has been flooded due to the recent rapid snowmelt in warmer springs. The ITG, with the support of the Fondation OptisomAs, is therefore helping to build a new center on higher elevation. Prague Zoo, a member of the ITG, has assumed responsibility for transporting the wild horses from European zoos.